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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6887590" data-attributes="member: 23751">I don't care how they described it.  How it really worked was turn based.  Otherwise it would have been impossible to split up and avoid being hit by the fireball the wizard you all beat on initiative was casting.  I would also bet very good money that you used initiative and everyone took their turns in the proper order, and it wasn't a chaotic free for all with everyone moving and attacking simultaneously.  Which, unless you did that, meant you used turn order and not simultaneous combat.You can justify however makes you feel good, but it's a fact that the two orcs who beat you on initiative could move a full 12" and block the exit that was 2" from your character before your character could do squat.  That would be impossible if combat was simultaneous.  In a simultaneous combat, everyone would be able to react to every inch of movement from everyone else as it happened and not have to wait until someone else was done moving.</blockquote>